New video from GW - Tyranids, or 'nids and something else?

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**Eax**

A new video was posted on GW's website:

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/wnt/blog.jsp?pid=12500050

Is it me, or does it seem like something MORE than just a new 'dex for 'nids?

**Wilytank**

Eax wrote:

Is it me, or does it seem like something MORE than just a new 'dex for 'nids?

It's just you.

**Troike**

The wording in places is a bit odd, talking about a "new" threat when the 'Nids are very well established as a threat. But yeah, pretty sure it's just the Tyranids.

**Makumba**

did I just watcha black screen with a blue/white ball or is there a part II to this ?

**Medium of Death**

Perhaps it's just referencing 'nids as a "new" threat in comparison to the other 40k races. First contact with the Tyranids was quite late on was it not?

Lexicanum wrote:The exact origin of the Tyranids is unclear, save the fact that they are not of the Milky Way Galaxy and have only recently arrived here after traveling countless millennia in the intergalactic void. It is unknown which galaxy they originated from, or for how long the Tyranid race has been on its genocidal rampage. Indeed their very name is but a title given to them by the Imperium, named after the planet where they were first encountered (Tyran). The Astronomican is what is drawing the Tyranid Hive Fleet to threaten the galaxy.[1j] It is possible that they have been preying on other galaxies since time immemorial.[1b] According to another source, they have consumed one thousand galaxies and are responsible for the annihilation of millions of intelligent species.[3]
The Imperium's first official contact with the Tyranid race was in 741.M41, when the Hive Fleet later known as Behemoth invaded the Eastern Fringe and annihilated planet Tyran. However, reexamination of Imperial records has led to speculation that the Tyranids have been invading, or at least probing, the Galaxy for much longer. Some of the Galaxy's most notorious predatory beasts, such as the Catachan Devil[2b] or the Fenrisian Kraken[8], are guessed to be the descendants of ancient Hive Fleets.
Records kept by the Ordo Xenos of the Inquisition suggest contact with Tyranid bio-forms as early back as M35; even more remarkable, in 937.M41, a Bio-ship was discovered beneath the surface of Nusquam Fundumentibus, where it had lain dormant since around M34. This discovery raised the disquieting possibility that other dormant Hive units are already "salted" around the Imperium as a whole, waiting for a new Hive Fleet to awaken them[9].

Perhaps 'nids are getting a Necron level re-write...

**Ashiraya**

I am interested.

I have been in love with Tyranids ever since The Last Light.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaB1YLYnqu0

**sing your life**

Troike wrote:
The wording in places is a bit odd, talking about a "new" threat when the 'Nids are very well established as a threat.

Tyranids have only recently appeared in the 40k timeline [later than Tau IIRC]

OT: Only looks like tyranids to me.

**Troike**

sing your life wrote:
Tyranids have only recently appeared in the 40k timeline [later than Tau IIRC]

But they're still a very well-established part of it. We've got big events like the attack on Macragge and the Octarius War, as well as plenty of other events. It just seems odd to describe them like they're some totally new, never-before-seen thing.

Oh well, we'll see what happens, I guess. Perhaps it'll make sense soon.

**shad0wen**

could be the 5th chaos god.

**Ashiraya**

Troike wrote:
sing your life wrote:
Tyranids have only recently appeared in the 40k timeline [later than Tau IIRC]

But they're still a very well-established part of it. We've got big events like the attack on Macragge and the Octarius War, as well as plenty of other events. It just seems odd to describe them like they're some totally new, never-before-seen thing.

Oh well, we'll see what happens, I guess. Perhaps it'll make sense soon.

It's like how they refer to the Necrons as a new threat rising, when they have been rising a good few years now. The timeline stands still, hence, the Tyranids remain new.

**EyeOfDC**

It's just 'Nids. 4th of Jan pre-order fits in with the rumors.

**Jihadnik**

Woo hoo, bring on the Nids! With Genestealer cult allies!

**PrehistoricUFO**

Can't wait to order my new Tyranids. New gribblies to assemble and paint.

I also found the description strange but the whole static timeline thing has to be taken into context.